The middle is a place too.

Culturally responsive psychology and wellbeing
Tools, workshops and resources for people living between cultures and the practitioners who sit with them

More about us and why this exists

Hi, I’m Vi, I’m a clinical psychologist and coach, and the daughter of former refugee and immigrant parents. I grew up as a second-generation Vietnamese born and raised in Melbourne’s West, moving between languages, expectations and worlds.

For a long time I couldn’t find a space that held the in-between parts of me, the ones shaped by culture, community, survival and silence. Maybe you know that feeling too.

After more than 12 years working in mental health, I started building that space outside the therapy room. Everything here draws on my clinical training and my lived experience. The rest we write together.

Welcome to The Middle Bridge Project.

With warmth and solidarity,
Vi Tran
Founder · Clinical Psychologist and Coach

A white box partially opened revealing a booklet titled 'Cultural Compass' with a subtitle about navigating personal growth and culture with clarity. The visible part of the booklet includes an illustration of a hand pouring tea into two cups, and the back cover features the word 'HARMONY' along with some text about peace and balance.

A 56-card values deck for those who move between cultures.

Find clarity, honour your story and reconnect with what matters. Made for personal reflection, group work and culturally affirming practice.

Cultural Compass™ 

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Ways to work together

  • Culturally Informed Group Coaching

    If you've spent a long time putting yourself last, navigating life between cultures, or struggling to trust your own needs this space was made with you in mind. We bring together people with shared lived experiences to explore self-trust, cultural narratives and emotional wellbeing through practical, culturally attuned strategies.

    Our much loved signature program, How to Cut Fruit for Yourself ™, a reparenting and self-compassion journey has been created as an annual offering.

  • Workshops with Community & Organisations

    We run workshops for two groups, and both matter. For organisations and teams working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities, we build cultural responsiveness covering cultural identity, values work and systemic impacts, intergenerational trauma and post-traumatic growth, and strengths-based reflective practice. For communities, we focus on you: leadership, confidence, values and strengths, and navigating workplaces and systems. We work with you, not at you.

    Where our work has taken us:

    • workshops for women of colour networks in the public sector

    • facilitation for leadership programs

    • collaborations with Asian Australian mental health initiatives

    • training for psychology practices

    • community events

    • international collaborations with anti-oppressive practitioners

  • Online Learning & Webinars

    Our webinars are run online, by and for those from culturally and racially marginalised communities with practical strategies around what our community has actually asked for including authenticity at work, navigating racialised expectations and cultural safety.

Learn more about our services